A Study of the Development of Friendship among Mixed-Age Preschooler through the Teaching of Picture Books in Preschool Classroom

• Main Authors: Min-Li Pai, 白敏俐
• Other Authors: Huoy-Jia Tzeng, Ph. D.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39575591168452999580

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 社會與區域發展學系碩士班 === 103 === A Study of the Development of Friendship among Mixed-Age Preschooler through the Teaching of Picture Books in Preschool Classroom Abstract As a kindergarten teacher for 14 years, the author noticed that many only child kindergarteners have great difficulty to make friends or maintain friendship with their peers. The author held the study to explore the effectiveness of sharing friendship related picture books in a mixed aged kindergarten affiliated to a public elementary school at the New Taipei City, Taiwan. There’re 3 only-child in the class. They’re very typical, no smile, bossy, no friends, have no skills to join in any play groups, etc. The author used The Gotcha Smile to teach her students how to make friends; then she used Good Friends to teach how to get along with their friends in order to keep the friendship. Then l’oeuf de Rostudel to teach what behavior will cause conflicts among friends, The 4th book was My delicious friends that taught kids how to behold their tempers to keep the friendship. And for prosocial behavior, she chose two books to promote it, they were The Lion Who Wanted to Love and Frog and Toad series: a lost button. Before the story time, they had a little discussion about the conflicts and feelings about having friends. After the story time, they would have role play etc to let children practice the newly learnt skills. This is an action research, after implementing instraction,methods such as observation, interviews, interviews, , video,and recording,literature review were used to collect data, which is then encoded and analyzed. Data from each activity were used for reflection and interpretation while accommodating the research purpose and questions. The research based on the results of the analysis and discussion, The results of this study are as follows： 1 The picture books instruction is extremely effective to promote " contact, maintain, the urge to control others behavior and the ability to resolve conflict, Prosocial Behavior ". It is helpful to only-child awaring of others, and development beneficial behavior to others. 2.The picture books instruction combines a multiform of activities. It helps to increase the ability of only-child to make friends. 3. The only child have their own unique perspective to make there friends , Teachers need special counseling with them. 4. It is important of awareness the role of parents and adult,while interaction with only-child. 5.This study to enhance my teaching attitude and skills . 6. This study sophisticated observation and reflection of teaching ability. Based on research results above, this study proposs suggestions for instructional practice, to serve as a reference for future research. keywords： Teaching of picture books、mixed-age preschooler、only- child 、Friendship